Test your knowledge of Installing, Configuring, and Optimizing of OSs.
Windows 98 to Windows XP
Windows Me to Windows 2000
Windows 2000 to Windows XP
Windows NT to Windows 2000
Formatting
Partitioning
Redirecting
Installing the OS
Formatting scans the surface of the hard-drive platter to find bad spots and marks the areas surrounding a bad spot as bad sectors.
Formatting lays down magnetic tracks in concentric circles.
The tracks are split into pieces of 512 bytes called sectors.
Formatting creates a File Allocation Table that contains information about the location of files.
INSTALL.BAT
SETUP.EXE
WINNT.EXE
WINNT32.EXE
Windows manuals
Hardware manuals
Microsoft website
Manufacturer's website
Older printers are often not compatible with Windows 2000. You may need to replace the printer.
Your printer driver is out of date. Contact the vendor or visit its website for an updated driver.
Uninstall, and then reinstall the printer using the original driver.
None of the above.
Exit to a command prompt and use the software that came with the device to run the installation.
Choose Start -> Settings -> Control Panel and then double-click the Add/Remove Hardware icon.
If Plug and Play does not work, there is no way to get the hardware working in the Windows 2000 environment.
On the Desktop, double-click the My Computer icon, double-click the Control Panel icon, and then double-click the Add/Remove Hardware icon.
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows NT
Windows 2000
9x
NT
2000
XP
Swap file
Location file
Temporary file
Program file
WIN.INI
SYSTEM.INI
Registry
REGEDIT.EXE
Ghost
Sysprep
Sysimage
RIS
Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Disk Defragmenter
Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Disk Defragmenter
Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Defragmenter
None of the above.
SWAPFILE.SYS
PAGEFILE.SYS
SWAPPINGFILE.SYS
PAGINGFILE.SYS
128MB
256MB
384MB
512MB
C:\TEMP
C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
C:\TMP
None of the above.
Increasing the swap-file size in Windows 2000
Decreasing the swap-file size in Windows 2000
Increasing the swap-file size in Windows XP
Decreasing the swap-file size in Windows XP
System control panel, Advance tab, Environment Variables button
System control panel, Advance tab, Temporary Files button
System control panel, Advance tab, Windows XP Temp Files button
Your temp files are always in the same directory in Windows XP
Windows 2000 only
Windows XP only
Both Windows 2000 and Windows XP
You cannot upgrade to Windows 2000 or Windows XP
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